*Please see below an announcement from our friends at EERA: A warm hello from EERA and best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year. As always at the start of a new year, there is a lot going on! With this email we would like to remind you of 3 important deadlines in January
Call for Papers: ESAI Annual Conference 2021 Possibilities in education: Reimagining Connections with People, Purpose and Place 25–26 March 2021 | Online The Educational Studies Association of Ireland invites scholars, practitioners, policymakers, emerging researchers and interested others from Ireland and beyond to come together at our virtual conference on 25-26 March 2021, and to reflect
Building on the success of our #SERAConnects events, SERA are delighted to collaborate with GTCS on a new initiative which aims to bring academic researchers and teachers together to explore ways in which research can help to inform practice. Termed as ‘ask the academics’ this is an opportunity for those involved in teaching and learning
The University of Strathclyde is currently inviting abstracts up to 500 words for presentations (ca.30-45min) discussing Paul Feyerabend with regard to educational thinking. The organisers will invite a number of presenters to contribute to an edited collection of essays on Feyerabend and education, which is planned for publication in 2024 to celebrate Feyerabend’s centennial birthday.
BERA has grown in recent years and currently offers more awards, grants and funding for members than ever before; awarding over £80,000 of funding in 2019 alone. As an organisation BERA are committed to principles of openness, integrity and transparency and seek to uphold ethical values in all activities and processes. For this reason, BERA
SERA is delighted to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) https://www.sera.ac.uk/wp-admin/edit.php This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) provides a framework for areas of cooperation, collaboration, and joint working between the Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) and the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI).
Our colleagues from the Education in the North journal have issued a call for papers for their forthcoming special issue, Remote Teaching to ensure equal access to education in rural schools. Full details of this call for papers can be accessed here.
In Manchester in May 2020 will be the 11th annual TEAN conference. TEAN (teacher education advancement network) is an independent professional learning community for teacher educators across the UK, Europe and beyond https://tean.ac.uk. The conference is focused on critical evaluation of innovative practice and research in the education and professional development of teachers. Attending TEAN conference provides
The annual conference for the European Sociological Association is to take place in Dublin this year. The theme of this year’s conference is Inclusive Education and Society in a Time of Change: Theories, Policies and Practices. The call for papers is now open. Venue: Trinity College, Dublin Date: 20th and 21st August 2020. Further details
Our colleagues from NECE – Networking European Citizenship Education are hosting their annual conference in Glasgow this month. The conference is entitled Confronting Inequality-The Role of Citizenship in Education. The NECE 2019 conference aims to explore the issue of inequalities in the development of young people’s citizenship and political identity. NECE 2019 will provide a
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Charlaine Simpson – SERA Academic Secretary
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